The Bio-Community Perl toolkit for microbial ecology.
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SUBMITTER: Angly FE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071200 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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The Bio-Community Perl toolkit for microbial ecology.
Angly Florent E FE Fields Christopher J CJ Tyson Gene W GW
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20140310 13
The development of bioinformatic solutions for microbial ecology in Perl is limited by the lack of modules to represent and manipulate microbial community profiles from amplicon and meta-omics studies. Here we introduce Bio-Community, an open-source, collaborative toolkit that extends BioPerl. Bio-Community interfaces with commonly used programs using various file formats, including BIOM, and provides operations such as rarefaction and taxonomic summaries. Bio-Community will help bioinformaticia ...[more]
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